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About 50 years ago, the founder Ludwig Obwieser put the qualities of determination, perseverance and constant further development
into the company's cradle. He has thus written a success story that is not only celebrated, but of which he can also be proud.

Challenge

As the global market leader of luminaires, EGLO decided to accept the challenge of digitalization and determined the need of a
ecommerce platform finally in 2017. When the project starts, the challenge was, that whether the processes nor the infrastructure
that will be necessary to run an eCommerce-System, has been available.
While an early version of Akeneo has been used to maintain data that should be used to run a closed B2B shop based on Magento 2,
during the requirements engineering process it became clear that the data that can be provided by the Akeneo export doesn't has
the structure that it can be imported by using Pimgento. The challenge was to build a rock solid catalog that will be able to scale
up to an eCommerce-System that finally will be rolled out in more than 35 countries.

Solution

To save costs but to have a solid base for future enhancements as well as the possiblity to scale up when needed, the decision has
been to use M2IF without EIP. As Akeneo can provide the default M2IF import formats for categories, products and attributes
this solution ensures that the import processes are on the solid base and doesn't need to be refactored when scaling up the
platform and switching to EIP when necessary.

Result

Focusing on cost efficiency and fullfilling the requirements for the actual scope, using M2IF has been the best solution to make
sure that future growth will be possible with a minimum of additional effort and costs.